Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

- Knight, Philip

Best Quotes about Mistakes

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley